going fishing: do I kill the fish if I want to take it home?

[Filliam H. Muffman]

AlphaDog, sorry, "whack them" is shorthand for hitting with a rock while laying against another rock to kill them quickly, or is it leaving them in the water to stay alive the objectionable part? I was just relaying how I was taught to keep food fresh/safe when I was little. My dad worked in a fish cannery in his tweens to make money for his family when his dad died during the depression. Looking back, he always thought of fish as food/money not something to care about. He never let us have pets, I guess it might have been related to that somehow. I have loved cats and dogs that girlfriends have had. None have ever kept fish for pets. If someone cares about how fish are treated, I would expect they would not go fishing at all.

[AlphaDog]

I've never been vicious, but I admit to becoming a bigger softie in my old age. And, yes, I was referring to attempting to keep them alive in the water but rendering them unable to escape.

My dad never fished in lakes because we lived near saltwater. We'd often go out salmon fishing, and he did have a large ice chest for the fish, and he would kill them as soon as they got in the boat and then put them on ice. Of course a 15 or 20 pound salmon flopping around on the floor of your boat is a bit different than a 1 pound trout twitching.

[Jimmypoo]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
"whack them" is shorthand for hitting with a rock while laying against another rock to kill them quickly

FISH MURDERER!


btw.... if you ever get a chance to have a Reuben with a filet, it's great! And it doesn't hurt the fish
at all, because it is dead from the dynamite!

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I am open to suggestions for humane methods of keeping fish safe to eat (and me safe from bears smelling it) when the air temps are up to 90 F for several hours, after a week of hiking in a National Wilderness area.

[kap]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
I am open to suggestions for humane methods of keeping fish safe to eat (and me safe from bears smelling it) when the air temps are up to 90 F for several hours, after a week of hiking in a National Wilderness area.

Store bought canned fish :biggrin:

[CJsNvrUrly]

I haven't fished in many years, but we used to just cut their heads off and gut them. Pretty straightforward.

[Rolando]

Why do murder Sea or Lake Kittens?


I like them broiled with a little red pepper and onions!

[Speedy]

CJsNvrUrly wrote:
I haven't fished in many years, but we used to just cut their heads off and gut them. Pretty straightforward.

:agree:

[Carm]

Let it live until you get it home. As mentioned earlier. Dont forget your fishing license.

Joe

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Hmm, I had forgotten about it, but as I was laying in bed this am, I remembered that I posted here about a goldfish I had (the brain works in strange ways). I do not remember if I really cared for it like a pet, more of a study in marine biology. My mom was trying to help me find the balance of oxygen producing plants, light, and food. Since then I think I have had plants that I cared more about than that fish. :dunno: